MY THANKSGIVING ON THIS NEW DAY…
I, thank God
—He’s so good! His love never runs out.
I that was set
free by God, and I am telling the world!
I tell how He
freed me from oppression, then rounded me up from all over the place, from the
four winds, from the seven seas.
When I wandered
for years in the desert, looking but not finding a good place to live,
Half-starved and parched with thirst, staggering and stumbling, on the brink of
exhaustion. Then, in my desperate condition, I called out to God. He got me out
in the nick of time; He put my feet on a wonderful road that took me straight
to a good place to live. So I thank God for His marvelous love, for His miracle
mercy to me that He loves.
He poured
great draughts of water down unto my parched throats; I got plenty to eat when
starved and hungry. I was locked in a dark cell, cruelly confined behind bars,
punished for defying God’s Word, for turning my back on the High God’s counsel—
A hard sentence, and my hearts so heavy, and not a soul in sight to help. Then I
called out to God in my desperate condition; He got me out in the nick of time.
He led me out of my dark, dark cell, broke open the jail and led me out. So I thank
God for His marvelous love, for His miracle mercy to me that He loves; He
shattered the heavy jailhouse doors, He snapped the prison bars like
matchsticks!
